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In 1990 James D. Lewis made a conjecture on the representability of algebraic Chow groups of projective algebraic manifolds. We prove that his conjecture holds for smooth complex complete intersections satisfying a numerical condition and consider some applications to motives. / Mathematics

We study Hessenberg varieties in type A via their local defining equations, called patch ideals. We focus on two main classes of Hessenberg varieties: those associated to a regular nilpotent operator and to those associated to a semisimple operator. In the setting of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties, which are known to be smooth and irreducible, we determine that their patch ideals are triangular complete intersections, as defined by Da Silva and Harada. For semisimple Hessenberg varieties, we give a partial positive answer to a conjecture of Insko and Precup that a given family of set-theoretic local defining ideals are radical. A regular nilpotent Hessenberg Schubert cell is the intersection of a Schubert cell with a regular nilpotent Hessenberg variety. Following the work of the author with Da Silva, Harada, and Rajchgot, we construct an embedding of the regular nilpotent Hessenberg Schubert cells into the coordinate chart of the regular nilpotent Hessenberg variety corresponding to the longest-word permutation in Bruhat order. This allows us to use work of Da Silva and Harada to conclude that regular nilpotent Hessenberg Schubert cells are also local triangular complete intersections. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / Algebraic varieties provide a generalization of curves in the plane, such as parabolas and ellipses. One such family of these varieties are called Hessenberg varieties, and they are known to have connections to other areas of pure and applied mathematics, including to numerical linear algebra, combinatorics, and geometric representation theory. In this thesis, we view Hessenberg varieties as a collection of subvarieties, called coordinate charts, and study the computational geometry of each coordinate chart. Although this is a local approach, we recover global geometric data on Hessenberg varieties. We also provide a partial positive answer to an open question in the area.

La théorie des champs de vecteurs logarithmiques et des formes différentielles logarithmiques d’une hypersurface singulière réduite est développée par K.Saito. Ces notions apparaissent dans l’étude de la connexion de Gauss-Manin de certaines familles de singularités et de leur déploiement semi-universel.Lorsque le module des champs de vecteurs logarithmiques est libre, l’hypersurface est appelée diviseur libre. A.G. Aleksandrov et A. Tsikh généralisent les notions de formes différentielles logarithmiques et de résidus logarithmiques aux intersections complètes et aux espaces de Cohen-Macaulay réduits.Nous étudions dans ce travail les formes différentielles logarithmiques d’un espace singulier réduit de codimension quelconque plongé dans une variété lisse, et nous développons une notion de singularités libres qui étend la notion de diviseurs libres. Les résidus des formes différentielles logarithmiques d’une hypersurface ainsi que leur généralisation aux espaces de codimension supérieure interviennent de façon cruciale dans ce travail de thèse. Notre premier objectif est de donner des caractérisations de la liberté pour les intersections complètes et les espaces de Cohen-Macaulay qui généralisent le cas des hypersurfaces. Nous accordons ensuite une attention particulière à une famille de singularités libres, à savoir les courbes, pour lesquelles nous décrivons le module des résidus logarithmiques en termes de multi-valuations. / The theory of logarithmic vector fields and logarithmic differential forms along a reduced singular hypersurface is developed by K. Saito. These notions appear in the study of the Gauss-Manin connection of some families of singularities and their semi-universal unfolding. If the module of logarithmic vector fields is free, the hypersurface is called a free divisor. A.G. Aleksandrov and A. Tsikh generalize the notions of logarithmic differential forms and logarithmic residues to reduced complete intersections and Cohen-Macaulay spaces. In this work, we study the logarithmic differential forms of a reduced singular space of any codimension embedded in a smooth manifold, and we develop a notion of free singularity which extend the notion of free divisor. The residues of logarithmic differential forms as well as theirgeneralization to higher codimension spaces are crucial in this thesis. Our first purpose is to give characterizations of freeness for complete intersections and Cohen-Macaulay spaces which generalize the case of hypersurfaces. We then give a particular attention to a family of free singularities, namely the curves, for which we describe the module of logarithmic residues thanks to their set of values.